Express - Messages Gone

[Bruce Rehmer]

Messages from mid august till today were showing up
today. Our Windows 98 system froze up while Express was
open. After rebooting we found hundreds of messages
gone. They are not in the delete folder or any other
folder in Express.

Any ideas on what has happened or how to restore?

Is there a limit to the # of messages the inbox will hold?

Bruce

 

[Rifleman]

Messages from mid august till today were showing up
today. Our Windows 98 system froze up while Express was
open. After rebooting we found hundreds of messages
gone. They are not in the delete folder or any other
folder in Express.

Any ideas on what has happened or how to restore?

Is there a limit to the # of messages the inbox will hold?

Bruce

Not an answer to your immediate problem but some advice for the future:
It is NOT a good idea to keep emails in the default OE mail files - i.e..
Inbox and Sent Items as they are very prone to corruption.
Move emails you want to keep to files that have been created manually, and,
of course, make regular backups.

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97-2003 from the Office
family for Windows PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in one
of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...blic.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
for OE 5.5x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ublic.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
for OE 6.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...;newsgroupsmicrosoft.public.internet.mail.mac
for the Macintosh version of OE
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ess.mac&SLCID=US&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups). The links under the newsgroup
references are for use with MS's web newsreader (not exactly the best way to
post but it works for some people)

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the SWEN virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Bruce Rehmer asked:

| Messages from mid august till today were showing up
| today. Our Windows 98 system froze up while Express was
| open. After rebooting we found hundreds of messages
| gone. They are not in the delete folder or any other
| folder in Express.
|
| Any ideas on what has happened or how to restore?
|
| Is there a limit to the # of messages the inbox will hold?
|
| Bruce